Drive partition consideration for desktop
by joboy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6N91A)
When I was new to Linux, I installed using the system default, which was to have everything on the same partition plus swap. After I've gained some experience I decided to create a separate partition for /home, so that when the system crashes I can easily reinstall the system without the need to restore my files from backup. I don't know what is the best way to partition the drive. I only know that, if I put everything on the same partition the system can grow without restriction, rather than to limit the boot drive size, which can be too small for the system to grow, or wasting space that I could use for /home, but I am risking lost of my files in case of crashes at the same time.
On the other hand, as far as I learned from the old days with windows, the swap/temp drive should be about the same size as memory installed, but I see more and more Linux distro used very little swap space, for example 2GB for 16GB of memory, it seems there's no rule for that.
On the other hand, as far as I learned from the old days with windows, the swap/temp drive should be about the same size as memory installed, but I see more and more Linux distro used very little swap space, for example 2GB for 16GB of memory, it seems there's no rule for that.